Mourinho hopes Messi will stay at Barcelona

“Messi is every season the same story, every season he is going to leave and he never leaves,” he said.

“Honestly, I hope he never leaves because I think he belongs to Barcelona, I think Barcelona belongs to him. I think the natural tendency and the beautiful thing would be for him to start and to finish his career at Barcelona.

“For Man Utd, not for sure, and I think he will stay in Barcelona. That’s just a personal opinion.”